Insufficient Environment Space When Installing MASM With RUNME

ID Number: Q28597

5.00

MS-DOS

Summary:

SYMPTOMS

When installing Microsoft Macro Assembler version 5.0 with the

RUNME batch file you may get the following message:

You have insufficient environment space to run this batch file.

See Chapter 12 of the CodeView and Utilities manual for

information on SETENV and other methods of changing the

environment size."

However Chapter 12 does not have information on SETENV or other

methods of changing the environment size.

RESOLUTION

The SETENV utility is described in section 15.3 of "Microsoft

Macro Assembler 5.0 CodeView and Utilities", on Pages 326-328.

There is also information on the use of the SHELL command to set

environment space.